Unjust by Design: Canada's Administrative Justice System

by Ron Ellis

Book Overview

Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch "judicial" tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicial decisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals and businesses. This book demonstrates that, except perhaps in Quebec,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774824786
• ISBN13: 9780774824781
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"